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Elizabeth Banks, ‘Pitch Perfect’ Power Player

Elizabeth Banks, the actor known for playing kooky, fun blondes, has become a Hollywood power player. The 41-year-old directed, produced and appears in ‘Pitch Perfect 2,’ opening next week

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Don Steinberg

May 7, 2015 3:01 p.m. ET

Winning roles as the kooky, fun blonde has been a natural for the energetic actor Elizabeth Banks. She was a bikini girl who smooched with Paul Rudd in the 2001 summer-camp comedy, “Wet Hot American Summer,” her first big break. She played a naughty bank teller opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in “Catch Me if You Can” in 2002 and an even naughtier bookseller in “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” in 2005. Last year she was a TV newswoman in a tight yellow dress in the slapstick “Walk of Shame.”